Michele Harper's memoir, The Beauty in Breaking, is a story about the challenges Michele Harper faced throughout her career as a physician. The conflicts she faced helped shape her growth as a person and a physician. Through her narrative, she portrays how both personal and professional conflicts can help with self discovery and transformation. Michele Harper’s conflicts help shape who she is, her narrative shows how these conflicts contribute to her development throughout the memoir. One of the main conflicts in Harper’s journey is whether or not she should feel empathy for the people she helps day by day. She ponders if she should be detached from emotions, she suffers with the emotional toll of watching humans suffering daily while needing